Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final Renewable Fuel Standard renewable volume obligations for 2017 and biomass-based diesel volume for 2018. In a significant achievement, the EPA reached the 15 billion gallon level required by statute for conventional biofuels, a victory for corn ethanol producers in Iowa. For biodiesel, the...
WASHINGTON – Senate and House Judiciary Committee Chairmen Chuck Grassley and Bob Goodlatte are requesting the immigration and criminal histories of a man charged in the brutal roadside rape near Fredericksburg, Va., in October.
Roberto Carlos Flores Sibrian was arrested November 17 and charged with rape and aggravated sexual battery after he allegedly...
WASHINGTON – Congressional Judiciary Committee leaders are expressing frustration and concern with an Obama Administration plan to admit into the United States an unknown number of refugees who Australia has refused to admit. The Administration never disclosed to Congress that it was negotiating a deal with Australia, even though it was apparently in...
WASHINGTON – Congressional Judiciary Committee leaders are expressing frustration and concern with an Obama Administration plan to admit into the United States an unknown number of refugees who Australia has refused to admit. The Administration never disclosed to Congress that it was negotiating a deal with Australia, even though it was apparently in...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Iowa's U.S. Senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley and Representatives Rod Blum (R-01), David Young (R-03) and Steve King (R-04) sent President-elect Donald J. Trump a letter urging him to scrap the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule in the first few days of his presidency.
In the...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to inform the Judiciary Committee on whether the commission is looking into whether Mylan misled investors in announcing a settlement on overcharging the taxpayers for EpiPens under Medicaid. “If Mylan’s purpose of the press...
Following the poor lead of the Department of Justice and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, EpiPen maker Mylan is declining to testify at a Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for Nov. 30 on the potential settlement between Mylan and the Justice Department over reportedly hundreds of millions of dollars in overpayments by the taxpayers for...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement on the death of Patrick Carothers, the Deputy Commander for the U.S. Marshals Service’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force. Carothers was killed in the line of duty this morning near Ludowici, Ga., while executing an arrest warrant for...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today welcomed a commitment from the Federal Trade Commission to protect consumers from anticompetitive behavior in the pharmaceutical sector. The statement from the commission chairwoman came in response to a request from Grassley and Ranking Member Patrick Leahy to review Mylan’s...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley made the following statement regarding President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Senator Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General."Senator Sessions is a respected member and former Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee who has worked across the aisle on major legislation. He knows the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) announcement that it will begin implementing a key provision in the landmark law addressing the nation’s opioid epidemic. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which...
WASHINGTON – Today Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley joined a bipartisan coalition of senators, led by John Cornyn (R-Texas), in introducing the American Law Enforcement Heroes Act, legislation that will prioritize the U.S. Department of Justice COPS grant applications of law enforcement agencies that use that funding to hire veterans....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today praised Senate passage of a bill he co-sponsored that will improve the responsiveness and performance of the Veterans Crisis Line, the confidential, toll-free hotline for veterans seeking suicide prevention and crisis resources help from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) responders.“We’ve seen...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley today said that he appreciated ChemChina’s response to his questions following a recent Judiciary Committee hearing of potential mergers of the seed and agrochemical industries, but his concerns remain about the company’s possible use of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
“China, through State-owned Enterprises,...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley today asked the inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs to “conduct a thorough investigation” into the treatment of a Johnston veteran who committed suicide. U.S. Army veteran Curtis Gearhart reportedly was told he would have to wait five to six weeks for an appointment for severe headaches, which...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley is urging the acting inspector general of the Department of Defense to “consider the need to step up the war on waste” in light of aggressive reporting on waste by another watchdog agency. “When I compare the aggressive reporting on waste by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) with what...
Inquiry Follows Inspector General Audit Revealing Inadequate Oversight Controls
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is seeking details on Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) payments to a confidential source who was reportedly engaged in a personal relationship with a DEA supervisor.
According to media reports, an Atlanta-based...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley said today that Iowans have until January 1, 2017, to submit requests for tickets to the 58th Presidential Inauguration Swearing-In-Ceremony through his office. Iowans interested in requesting tickets should submit their names and contact information on Grassley’s website:...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, today said the Department of Justice should reconsider its decision to refuse to appear voluntarily at a Judiciary Committee hearing on issues related to the EpiPen’s reported misclassification under Medicaid and resulting overcharges to the taxpayers. “This is a problem that...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made the following comment honoring Veterans Day.“For all the honorable men and women who join the U.S. Armed Forces and serve our country in uniform, the United States must uphold its promises made to these patriots who put their lives on the line to protect and defend our sacred freedoms. Whether it’s providing...
